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Trial by Trash - by Jon Stattmann

It was 4:00 AM on a Monday when I pulled the garbage truck around behind Applebee's, backed up to the enclosure, hit the button marked N, and pulled on the air brakes ...more

A Year on the Prairie - Natania Rosenfeld

My friend up the street calls me one day in April. We live in a bleak town called Stormville and a flat Midwestern landscape she tolerates better than I do....

She, Under the Umbrella, Went - by Melissa Haley

Perhaps it was dusk and all of the neon had just come on. It was very likely raining, and the puddles would reflect the signs. But my memories of Portland can be vague, and they all have rain....more

Psalm for Rafi - Elana Zaiman

Rabbi Pearl is dressed in black. Black hat, black-framed glasses, black suit, black shoes. He stands in Rafi's white hospital room, and holds a pocket-sized black book in his fleshy hands....

Walking Backwards in Takamatsu - by Linda Lancione Moyer

A high-rise hotel room overlooking the Takamatsu harbor, on the island of Shikoku, Japan. Pat and Gail have gone off for the afternoon with the Okawaharas, a family of indigo dyers who are our hosts here, but I've begged off....more